Re: [Phplib-users] falback_mode and session4

[Giancarlo P. <gia...@na...>]

Maxim Derkachev wrote:
> 
> Hello Giancarlo,
> 
> Tuesday, June 04, 2002, 6:07:26 PM, you wrote:
> 
> GP> But PHP4 session doesn't handle that. If there's no cookie nor
> GP> session-URL, simply session is started but not propagated.
> GP> So in practice there no fallback possibility with session4.
> GP> Am I right?
> GP> I am wondering if  the initial Header:302 trick can be performed with
> GP> session4, to accomplish that compatibility.
> 
> If fallback mode is defined and trans_id_enabled is set to false, the
> session will be propagated using url() and purl() - they will add
> SID if no session cookies are installed.  The only thing that is
> missing is the first redirect which is used in session3 to determine
> if the session cookies are used.
> The reason it is missing coming from my opinion that this redirect is not
> needed at all - if the cookies are used, SID will disappear from urls
> automatically after the second click, but we'll save a reload. If
> there is no cookies, url() and purl() will do the job. Of course, we'll
> have SID in links at the first click, but it's only aesthetics. Moreover,
> this behavior (the first redirect) is not supported by native PHP4 session
> module, and even if we try to be compatible with the good old PHPlib, we
> can not ignore changes. I guess the better way is to use the standard
> trans-sid feature.

Yes, in practice it doesn't work only if you do a realod. It works with
whatever link you click. 
Sorry, but I got stuck looping in the example page, and normally use to
hit reload to see the counter increase... The link on top is OK.

Gian